American murder suspect defended by Abraham Lincoln (1833–1899)
William Armstrong
Born
1833
Died
1899
Other names
Duff Armstrong
Known for
Murder trial and defense by Abraham Lincoln
William "Duff" Armstrong (c. 1833–1899) was an American Union Army soldier and the defendant in an 1858 murder prosecution in which he was defended by Abraham Lincoln, four years before Lincoln was elected President of the United States. The case would later be portrayed in the 1939 film Young Mr. Lincoln.
William "Duff" Armstrong (c. 1833–1899) was an American Union Army soldier and the defendant in an 1858 murder prosecution in which he was defended by...
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with...
notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he successfully defended "Duff" Armstrong on a charge of killing another with a slung shot. They were widely...
defense for William "Duff" Armstrong in 1858. He referred to a farmer's almanac to prove that a witness could not have seen Armstrong in the moonlight, as...
Abe". Lincoln argued in an 1858 criminal trial, defending William "Duff" Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker. The case...
Wald, Carl Erickson and Warren Duff, and starring Rudy Vallée, Ann Dvorak, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan, Robert Armstrong and Allen Jenkins. It was released...
trial", in which Abraham Lincoln, as counsel for criminal defendant DuffArmstrong, won his case by using an almanac to demonstrate that the prosecution...
1858 when he defended the son of Lincoln's friend, Jack Armstrong. William "Duff" Armstrong had been charged with murder. The case became famous for...
John Wight Duff, FBA (1866–1944) was a Scottish classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classics at Armstrong College, Durham from 1898 to 1933....
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perform well either. This lack of success prompted Armstrong to shift to mystery fiction with Lay On, Mac Duff! (1942), The Case of the Weird Sisters (1943)...
Australian neo-pulp film written and directed by Daniel Armstrong and starring Daisy Masterman, Whitney Duff, and Emma-Louise Wilson. When an alien fugitive crash...
world by going undercover for the CIA as a James Bond–type superspy. Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Darrell Hammond...
Interview - Chuck Armstrong - President - Mariners Archived July 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine at The Biz of Baseball Wilson, Duff (April 3, 1987)....
Australian wickets to fall: Trumper, Noble, Hill, Darling, Hopkins, Duff, Armstrong, and Carter, before taking the final wicket, that of Saunders. The...
emerged that Lance Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs, in October 2012, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) stripped Armstrong of the seven...
Cass Western Historic site Courtroom where Abraham Lincoln defended DuffArmstrong in the famous Almanac trial Homepage Old Market House Galena Jo Daviess...
debutants, Duff and Armstrong, were positioned at 10 and 11, and shared a 120-run partnership for the last wicket, Duff scoring 104 and Armstrong 45 not out...
Dave Keon 15 Billy Harris Wingers 8 John MacMillan 9 Dick Duff (A) 10 George Armstrong (Captain) 11 Bob Nevin 12 Ron Stewart 16 Bert Olmstead (A) 20...